[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/4] avformat/avio: Limit url option parsing to the documented cases

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Wed Jan 20 21:40:24 CET 2016


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 09:21:30PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:10:28AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > From: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > 
> > This feature is not know much or used much AFAIK, and it might be helpfull in
> > exploits.
> > No specific case is known where it can be used in an exploit though
> > subsequent commits depend on this commit though
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> > ---
> >  libavformat/avio.c |   11 +++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> applied

also if these are needed elsewhere we can revert this (if nothing
depends on it) or extend what can use this but i like to rather lock
things down a bit and fix a regression than leave it unneccesarily
open when it plausibly has no users

[...]


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